LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
                              Austin, Texas
                                     
                    FISCAL NOTE, 76th Regular Session
  
                              March 20, 1999
  
  
          TO:  Honorable Paul Sadler, Chair, House Committee on Public
               Education
  
        FROM:  John Keel, Director, Legislative Budget Board
  
       IN RE:  HB1120  by Najera (Relating to exceptions to public
               school class size limits granted by the commissioner of
               education), As Introduced
  
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*  No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.        *
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Local Government Impact
  
This bill would  limit the enrollment in a classroom excepted from class
size limitations to a maximum of 27 students.

The Texas Education Agency estimates that a total of 194 students would
be affected by the bill.  The districts receiving waivers in which these
194 students are located would need to create about 10 new sections for
the affected grade levels to meet the requirements proposed by this bill.

The local cost for salaries and benefits for 10 additional teacher is
estimated to be about $369,090 annually.   It is assumed that districts
would meet the needs for these sections through temporary construction,
which is estimated to cost about $34,000 per classroom.  The total local
cost of adding the additional 10 classrooms would be about $340,000.
  
  
Source Agencies:   
LBB Staff:         JK, CT, RN